The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has chosen its new head coach. That's how Executive Director Eric Marshall described Adam Johnson, the symphony's new music director and conductor, in a press ...

If you go to an orchestra concert, it’s pretty easy to figure out what most of the people onstage are contributing to the overall experience. The violinists and cellists move their bows back and ...

The conductor's baton is the original magic wand. Give it to a broken-down piano player and presto!—up pops a shaggy-haired genius, a leader of men, God's gift to music. Bah! says ...